User Profile

Character Name: Derek Douglas Towers.
City of Residence: Currently London.
Seal/Angel/Kamui/Gemini/Dreamseer/Neutral?: Neutral but will probably end up working on the Seal side of things.

Special powers?: Since Derek was a very small child, even a baby, he has had the power of smoke manipulation. His parents were both smokers, and as a child the smoke never went near him, he'd never smell of cigarette smoke, and he never suffered any side effects from their smoking such as asthma and such. As a child he never realised he was doing it. It was only as he entered his teens that he realised what he could do and started practising on it. For Derek, his power is quite hard to use- there has to be smoke in the first place to beable to manipulate it. It only has to be the tiniest amount of smoke and then he can make it into more himself. His power manipulation includes creating large amounts of thick smoke (if there is a little around him of course. No smoke= no good, it doesn't just come out of his fingertips) so he can make quick getaways. If he really concentrates hard enough, he can use it as an attack but it will only blind his enemy and make their eyes sting for a short time, at most make their breathing really bad. He can also mannipulate the way it moves, and this comes as natural as him as breathing does.

History: Derek Douglas Towers was born into a very happy familily. He was an only child, so spent most of his life being spoiled rotten by his parents Andrew and Jane- although he didn't get bought horses and such (his family isn't that rich), he was the child that always had the tv and video in his room. From a very very young age, both Andrew and Jane noticed their son's smoke manipulation abilities- whenever they smoked, he was able to keep it away from him. As they watched his grow up through Primary School and into High School, they realised what had been explained to them was very very true.

It had been 2 months before Derek's birth that Jane had gone to see a psychic medium- the county Devon fair was on that week, and even though she was pregnant and tired on her feet, Jane insisted she wanted to go see this medium. She loved anything to do with that sort of stuff. However, she was not pleased with what she was told. The medium had taken one look at her and started talking. Talking about the end of the world, of seven angels, seven seals and the people in between. The medium did not discuss it all in detail, but it was enough for Jane to get the gist. She was also told that her son would be special, that he would have powers that would manifest and grow throughout his childhood and that, even though he was not a Seal or an Angel, he would play a part in it nonetheless.

Derek was born a month early and spent his first four weeks of life in an incubator at Dereford Hostpial, but as he grew up Jane tried her best not to coddle him, to hug him and pretend it was never happening and would never happen. Derek was none the wiser until he turned sixteen. It was at sixteen that he started smoking and his powers started showing themselves more clearly. If he was smoking behind the school gym and a teacher was on his way, Derek could just wave the smoke away and hide the cigarette, making the smoke stand still so it couldn't be seen. He was never caught smoking, not once by a teacher. At that time, his mother sat him down and explained the End of the World to him. Derek was interested, but not much. His attitude took after his father's- what will happen will happen. He believed that if it was so, then there was nothing he could do to change it. He finished his GCSE's and opted not to go further- even though he wasn't THAT interested, why continue studying if the world was going to end? Instead he started paying £2 a week to put lines on the national lottery.

Six numbers, two lines. It took two years, but when Derek was eighteen, he scored the jackpot. Seven and a half million pounds. He was big news at the time and even got his picture shown in the national newspapers: The Sun, The Mirror, even The Telegraph. The news died out after a week- there was always people winning the lottery, twice a week on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Sure one was eighteen but look! A sixteen year old won it this week and she only bought one more ticket and THAT is much more interesting. Derek shrugged it off and, after giving his parents enough money to last the rest of their lives in comfort, moved to London. He could afford the hellish prices of £700 a month for a nice flat near the Thames, he made £400 a week on interest alone. However, money comes at a price. Everyone wanted to be his best friend, just for the money. In time, Derek decided to shut everyone out- he spoke to people he just couldn't make friends so easilly. It wasn't like he could trust anyone, or say to them "Hey you talking to me because of me or my wallet?" He decided to just live as normal as he could- he may be rich, but you couldn't throw money at an Angel and hope they didn't rip your intestines out.

Derek is now twenty-two years old and still living in London. He still doesn't have many friends at all, if any and is now thinking towards the future, and what he will do to help if he wants to. He's still rich, still smoking 40 a day, and still manipuluting his cigarette smoke into pretty little smoke rings.

Personality: Derek is a very stable individual at most. He's not prone to tantrums, hissy fits and can stay calm in most situations. However, he's never come across and angel before so he has no idea how he'll react in a battle. His first instinct would be to probably run away, but if people he knew are involved, then he'd stay and fight. If the fight seriously isn't going his way, Derek will run away- he is not one to sacrifice his life or to die trying.

In everyday non-Angel life, Derek is somewhat content with his life. He has everything he wants due to his Lotto win. Sure, he doesn't have that many friends, but who needs them when you have a pet hamster and your cigarettes? At times he just stands and grins, watching the world pass by. At other times, he wonders what would have happened if he had not won the lottery. Would he have been happy? The brooding never lasts long though as he usually goes out and buys something, or goes out on a night drinking. When he gets drunk, he tends to be loud like everyone else and, on occasion can be seen dancing on the table or doing karaeoke.

The one thing that does make Derek "brood" is the fact that as he has no friends, he has no lover. He's known since his early teens that he wants a male lover, not a female, and has no problems with that. Even his parents have no problem with that- even though Jane did mourn the loss of grandchildren for a while- but Derek can't seem to weed truthful people from the gold diggers. And it gets him down. And then he goes and buys something. I guess it's easy to say his attention span isn't that great, and he gets easilly bored with most things.

When thrown into a room of strangers, Derek would quite happilly talk to people, but he'd never exchange phone numbers or invite anyone back. He's been hurt too often that way.


Appearance: PB- Kentaro Sakata from Love Hina.

Derek stands at six foot two inches tall with a very slim lithe figure with a few muscles here and there from going to the gym once a week. Nothing major though muscle wise. His hair is cut short and falls straight from a center parting to below his ears where, to his disgust, it curls very slightly. Dereks hair is a muddly blonde colour. As for his eyes, his eyes are a dark blue and normally stare at people as if trying to figure them out with one look. It never works, but it always seems that's the way he looks at you. Skin is tanned due to regular sunbed sessions (yes this man enjoys his pampering) and the rest is standard: nose medium, lips thin, and his teeth a faint yellow ( he see's the dentist four times a year to get them cleaned, but due to the fact he smokes a lot they'll never be whiter than white).

As for clothes, Derek goes with whatever he feels comfortable in, not what's in fashion. This is usually jeans and teeshirt with sneakers or, if it's cold, a sweater. Derek is always seen in a denim jacket- he's had it for years and it's like an old friend, even if it is a bit frayed here and there.

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